I have no fear of the robots they use at the moment as most are just glorified remote controlled toys. It's when they start making them autonomous with AI that i'll start to get worried.
I concur; until someone can tell me with 100% certainty whether it's going to rain or not tomorrow I won't believe that we have any real idea of how our weather system works. If we don't know how OUR weather works, we certainly don't know about another planet!
What are the alternatives to stop people stealing your code? Whilst open source works for many people, companies that make money from code need to protect it somehow... Only the threat of huge financial hits (like $367m) stop (or dont in this case) stop people from stealing code.
I do hope it survives the winter. Even though it's WAY past it's sell by date I think it's inspirational to others as to "how it should be done". Great work and great "products".
Reminds me of PATA and SATA. We are moving to SATA away from PATA because it's faster to just run through all the instructions on one go (Single Core) than attempt to bring all the different answers together at the end of the IO operation (PATA). I would rather have a single 32Ghz CPU than a 1Ghz CPU with 32 cores, and I can bet it will run all my real world apps a hell of a lot faster.
Who would be the one to decide what this "LINUX Distro" would be though? "The whole point of Linux is choice"
Although that being said out of the box Fedora and Ubuntu look identical to Joe Sixpack as Gnome is used on both. KDE based distros also look very similar. Getting Gome and KDE to merge would be like getting cats and dogs to live together but if that happened the majority of distros would use "Knome". But then it would be as bloated as windows perhaps?
I wish people would stop complaining about the x86 architecture (which to be fair is outdated and forced into backwards compatability) and instead put their heads together to build a decent future proof architecture that they can then use virtulization and emulation to run all existing x86 code. As far as i'm aware intel tried to start from scratch with the itanium and nobody brought it. We are FORCED to keep the backwards compatibilty but until we can run all our usual x86 based crap nobody will buy new chip(sets)
Depends. Economies of scale would mean the devices could be built in bulk for much cheaper. Besides, the OS needs only a 4gb cf or similar? Something fast though
To be honest I always thought that Microsoft should sell Windows not as a software product but as a PCI card that sits in your machine. The OS would load from ROM chips (flashable from the windows update site etc) much faster than from a hard drive. All your data and settings however was stored on your normal HDD. This would mean that system files were essencial read only so less chance of virii affecting you or user error. Not to mention that this ellimanates all chance of windows being pirated as you need the physical device to boot off. It also means you can have diskless workstations that only have network storage space.
Hopefully Linux fans could simply reflash the PCI card with their own choice of OS.
No idea how much such a piece of hardware would cost though, and i guess it would only add to the cost of windows.
I agree 100% about the meds, make sure to have a stack of headache tablets (my personal preference is neurofen) in your first aid cabinet. Theres nothing worse than a headache when you are trying to solve a problem/disaster when your brain feels like it's oozing out of your ears due to the noisy machines.
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I have no fear of the robots they use at the moment as most are just glorified remote controlled toys. It's when they start making them autonomous with AI that i'll start to get worried.
Add to that the failure of their flagship OS on the market
I'm not convinced that Vista is their flagship OS compared to Server 2003/2008 which generates a LOT of revenue. Is Windows Server failing?
I for one welcome our new Von Neumann 3D printer overlords!
I concur; until someone can tell me with 100% certainty whether it's going to rain or not tomorrow I won't believe that we have any real idea of how our weather system works. If we don't know how OUR weather works, we certainly don't know about another planet!
Surely the lessons learnt from PVM and other similar networked parallel machines can be used in multicore programming?
What are the alternatives to stop people stealing your code? Whilst open source works for many people, companies that make money from code need to protect it somehow... Only the threat of huge financial hits (like $367m) stop (or dont in this case) stop people from stealing code.
Didn't M$ make that made into a Video Game instead?
I do hope it survives the winter. Even though it's WAY past it's sell by date I think it's inspirational to others as to "how it should be done". Great work and great "products".
Reminds me of PATA and SATA. We are moving to SATA away from PATA because it's faster to just run through all the instructions on one go (Single Core) than attempt to bring all the different answers together at the end of the IO operation (PATA). I would rather have a single 32Ghz CPU than a 1Ghz CPU with 32 cores, and I can bet it will run all my real world apps a hell of a lot faster.
Who would be the one to decide what this "LINUX Distro" would be though? "The whole point of Linux is choice" Although that being said out of the box Fedora and Ubuntu look identical to Joe Sixpack as Gnome is used on both. KDE based distros also look very similar. Getting Gome and KDE to merge would be like getting cats and dogs to live together but if that happened the majority of distros would use "Knome". But then it would be as bloated as windows perhaps?
I wish people would stop complaining about the x86 architecture (which to be fair is outdated and forced into backwards compatability) and instead put their heads together to build a decent future proof architecture that they can then use virtulization and emulation to run all existing x86 code. As far as i'm aware intel tried to start from scratch with the itanium and nobody brought it. We are FORCED to keep the backwards compatibilty but until we can run all our usual x86 based crap nobody will buy new chip(sets)
Depends. Economies of scale would mean the devices could be built in bulk for much cheaper. Besides, the OS needs only a 4gb cf or similar? Something fast though
To be honest I always thought that Microsoft should sell Windows not as a software product but as a PCI card that sits in your machine. The OS would load from ROM chips (flashable from the windows update site etc) much faster than from a hard drive. All your data and settings however was stored on your normal HDD. This would mean that system files were essencial read only so less chance of virii affecting you or user error. Not to mention that this ellimanates all chance of windows being pirated as you need the physical device to boot off. It also means you can have diskless workstations that only have network storage space. Hopefully Linux fans could simply reflash the PCI card with their own choice of OS. No idea how much such a piece of hardware would cost though, and i guess it would only add to the cost of windows.
I agree 100% about the meds, make sure to have a stack of headache tablets (my personal preference is neurofen) in your first aid cabinet. Theres nothing worse than a headache when you are trying to solve a problem/disaster when your brain feels like it's oozing out of your ears due to the noisy machines.